Amajor advance in viticulture research was achieved last August when the Pinot Noir grapevine genome was sequenced by a French and Italian public consortium, said Dr. Kerry Ringer during grape industry talks held in Washington State. This is only the second woody plant and the first fruit crop to be sequenced. The importance of having a public group perform the work is that it’s all public information and the sequencing data is available on-line, she said. While benefits from the grape genome project might not be readily apparent today or tomorrow, Ringer believes growers will see big strides made in […]